Elpis in pictures · 4:50pm Sep 27th, 2018
Rich Burlew (Order of the Stick) accidentally made a comic strip version of "Elpis"!
I tried inlining the image here, but it turns out it's too tall to display on fimfiction. Here are the first 5 panels:
Rich Burlew (Order of the Stick) accidentally made a comic strip version of "Elpis"!
I tried inlining the image here, but it turns out it's too tall to display on fimfiction. Here are the first 5 panels:
I wrote an explanation of "Elpis" in response to The Royal Guard's rejection of it. I realized while writing it that I hadn't understood the story completely. So odds are pretty good that some of you didn't, either. Here's my explanation (revised since I sent it back):
I removed the Dark tag from Elpis. It has a hopeful ending, and it has the "gore" tag to warn people there is a little bit of gore. I call a story "dark" if it makes me feel hopeless or pessimistic. You wouldn't, I think, call Lord of the Rings or Star Wars dark, though they have all manners of dark, grim, and gruesome people and places, and loppings and choppings of limbs and other things. (Think about it: How many scenes of
I have to apologize--you folks pledged all that money for the Clarion write-a-thon, and it doesn't look like I can get another story out before Bronycon. Especially since I found out I left part of my costume in Pennsylvania. And have to rebuild it. And can't use the 3D printer I just spent 2 full days making a model for. I'll get some stories out; they just won't be in time for the write-a-thon, which ends during